Check out this surveillance camera footage of a British store employee using his shoe to fend off robbers armed with knives.

The worker had been stabbed in the arm and had to stare down multiple goons, so, perhaps in a state of desperation, he whipped off his shoe and used it as a weapon. Go ahead and laugh, but he stood his ground and ran the thugs out of the establishment – without getting any money.

The employee, who also used a glass jar to fight, went to the hospital, where he received a dozen stitches for cuts to his arm.